Saturday, September 24, 2011

"All Your Records Is Ours!!": Sibelius

The wonderful world of Big Brother!

...America is learning about the federal government’s plan to collect and aggregate confidential patient records for every one of us.

In a proposed rule from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal government is demanding insurance companies submit detailed health care information about their patients.

All in the name of "comparing performance."  And that's undoubtedly the case.  

Let's not talk about data-security breaches, shall we?  Or .....ahhhh.........curious Gummint employees.


4 comments:

  1. Please show me where specifically in the Constitution it safeguards against invasion of privacy.

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  2. There is no Constitutional right to privacy. But there IS Griswold, Roe, and Lawrence.

    Wanna play?

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  3. Don't feed the truther Dad...please?

    David

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  4. "the federal government is demanding insurance companies submit detailed health care information about their patients."

    Um, no, it's not demanding. It is proposing a process by which insurers' aggregate risk can be measured and compared with others to create "Flexible risk adjustment schemes [which] are a promising avenue for promoting market stability and limiting insurer cream-skimming, potentially providing greater benefits at lower cost...

    "We recognize this approach may raise concerns related to consumer privacy and standard submission formats. Accordingly, we propose national standards to address each of these issues. We seek comment on the proposed approach, as well as comments on the potential advantages and disadvantages of the alternative approaches." - Source

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